Former West Bromwich Albion footballer Lee Hughes has been banned from playing for his prison's team for the rest of the season after he was sent off in a match.

Hughes was sent off for two bookable offences while playing for HMP Featherstone, near Wolverhampton, in a game against Fegg Hayes, from Stoke-on-Trent.

The first challenge led to a player being taken to hospital for stitches in his chin after a high tackle and the second offence involved Hughes appearing to stamp on an opponent's head after a challenge.

Hughes has been playing for Featherstone, in the Staffordshire County League, since being moved to the jail last month.

Prison spokesman Stuart Bennett said: "He was sent off for two bookable offences.

"For the first one it was quite a high tackle, definitely. For the second one, he didn't stamp on the player, but gave the impression that he did.

"Featherstone Prison has a policy of banning all players for the rest of the season if they are sent off. But if he remains with us, the slate would be wiped clean ahead of next season."

Hughes was convicted last August of causing the death by dangerous driving of fatherof-four Douglas Graham, aged 56, and was sentenced to six years in prison.

Coventry Crown Court heard he had gone to a postmatch drinking session before his £100,000 Mercedes sports car smashed into a Renault Scenic.